Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi
Police raid WorldCoin cryptocurrency warehouse in Nairobi
NAIROBI, Kenya, Aug 7 – Police raided a warehouse belonging to WorldCoin cryptocurrency in Nairobi and carted away documents over the weekend. The officers went to the offices along Mombasa Road armed with a search warrant and left with machines they believe stores data gathered by the firm. The tea...
Worldcoin, founded by US tech entrepreneur Sam Altman, offers free crypto tokens to people who agree to have their eyeballs scanned.
It claims to be creating a new global “identity and financial network”.
Altman, who founded Open AI, which built chat bot ChatGPT, says he hopes the initiative will help confirm if someone is a human or a robot. He also says this could lead to everyone being paid a universal basic income but it is not clear how.
Sure, bud, hand over our biometrics for your private fiat money, for the promise of unclear-how basic income, meanwhile with your exploiting the poors and manipulating the laws to favor yourself.
This sounds like the techbro response to climate change: it will fix itself because reasons and muh tech.
InNoVaTiOn!!
This whole WorldCoin thing sounds incredibly dystopian.
is incredibly dystopian *
Did they find the treasure trove of coins?
Also, fuck that company
Will wearing polarized sunglasses thwart the eye scanning? This world timeline is starting to freak me out.
Hell, in 2019 conspiracy theorists We're advocating to wear a mask to thwart facial recognition software. Now wearing a mask is being part of the world elite!